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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1902
Page
3
Mrs. Charles Sager a widow and John Williams about the same age wed on Monday. The bride, long an invalid, walked with a cane before the ceremony. Two hours later in joy she shed the cane and leaped a four foot fence then joined her husband digging for bait planning a fishing honeymoon.
Mary Drexel Wirth of Bremen Germany traveled 3800 miles to marry Hans Welland in the Mary Drexel home chapel Philadelphia after the dying will of John D Lankenau directed the union. Welland arrived from Nicaragua joining the betrothed. the ceremony followed a stay at the Mary Drexel home.
In Islip the Clerical League members hold their annual outing at the Poush house. After dinner two nine-man teams played a hotly contested baseball game ending in a 15 to 15 tie. Bishop Burgeass played second base and hit in every at bat with two home runs.
In Cleveland on June 13 Judge Fiedler discharged Robert Sheering a Kenyon graduate after a minister Rev Edward Doane intervened. Sheering admitted cocaine use saying it kept him going while he slept on a public square bench. Doane took him home saying they were college mates.
In New York Justice Blanchard refused to release Margaret Peiffer from the Bedford state reform school for women after her husband Lawrence Peiffer petitioned for discharge. The husband sought release to place her in a private institution, but the court ruled it cannot override the board of managers’ purview and that the commitment was for intoxication.
Indianapolis residents follow a convention of the Knights and Ladies of Fidelity of Topeka Kansas as dissension and financial strain sparked a push for reorganization. Losses forced 100000 from reserves in 1901, sparking fears of disruption if Louisville talks fail. 400 officers in Indy and 600 statewide face scrutiny as State Auditor Hart withholds a permit to operate in Indiana.
Bernard Brady a 12 year old boy saved a New Haven passenger train by waving a red flag from burning railroad ties over the Naugatuck river. Gate tender Thomas Conway handed him the flag before both were engulfed in smoke. The engine stopped 250 feet from the blaze. Representative Hallock plans to present a gold watch to Brady.
In Syracuse a new organization of unmar ried women ages 18 to 20 prepares to greet the Ninth regiment next month. Miss Fannie Armstrong leads the group dressed in blue uniforms with brass buttons and caps. She cites husbands' objections as the reason married women are excluded.
A Jersey City woman, diagnosed with smallpox, left home to avoid quarantine and protect her family. She was found near the National Docks railroad tracks by Patrolman Hening and taken to a pesthouse. authorities could not locate a matching address or identity.
Watered text lists 7.00 excursion to Niagara Falls on Thursday August 7, 1902 leaving Indianapolis at 5 0 p m and a 1.00 Michigan City excursion on Sunday June 15, 1902 leaving Indianapolis at 6 30 a m Also mentions pianos ledgers and office items sold by Baldwin’s and WM B Burford Indianapolis Denison House barber shop proprietor George L Knox.
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